Explore cases
Faceted archive of NUFORC reports — filter by shape, place, and decade. Every URL is deterministic SSR (cacheable at the edge).
Arnolds Park · IA, USA
Triangular Shaped Object Hovering Over Frozen Lower Gar Lake No More Than 1500ft (Aprox 1/4 Mile Away) From Bridge I Was Standing On.
Des Moines · IA, USA
my friend and i saw a blurry white shape, 'bobbing' far off in a blue sky. we got the binoculars and with those saw that it was a class
Sioux City · IA, USA
Triangular shapes that only I could see.
Anamosa/Cedar Rapids (between) · IA, USA
I was delivering a pizza to a house out of town. I was returning towards a gravel rode from a suburb. I came to the end of the drive
Trenton · IA, USA
Young man hunting sees two peculiar bright lights hovering in sky, "like planets." Suddenly they flashed, changed color, moved.
Iowa City · IA, USA
Man witnesses 2 "white" aircraft rendezvous at high altitude, fly toward bizarre obj. approaching very fast. Obj. "sparkled."
Iowa City · IA, USA
Man repts. witnessing "flash, followed by a classic UFO, w/ a tailfin at back." Red color on top half of tailfin. Became triangular.
Rock Valley · IA, USA
I was out stargazing and a large, completely silent triangle UFO passed overhead at phenomenal speed towards the East. Two more went ov
Mason City · IA, USA
Woman repts. seeing peculiar star zigzagging across sky. Fifth sighting in a week.
Adair County · IA, USA
2 young men experience multiple sightings of bizarre, bright obj., which hover, streak, & land. Very bizarre; good report.
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Young man sees 3 solid lights; pulls off highway. Sees gigantic, gray triangle w/ "archways." Good rept, excellent drawing.
Lu Verne · IA, USA
Large orange ball of light moving slowly across sky.
Knoxville · IA, USA
Hovering object seen high in night sky as a /\ (this should be like an arrowhead) changing or to a < or making a turn.
Earlham · IA, USA
one huge(4 storys high,150 ft. wide) craft, trailed by 2 small pods that looked about the size of a big car. The big ship made no noise
Boyden · IA, USA
A flash of bright light on a dark night.
Mason City (south of) · IA, USA
I was going south on I35 in a Greyhound bus in northern Iowa. It was early in the am. and i was just sitting awake then suddenly, a ver
Milford · IA, USA
The objects hover to the west changing diffrent colors and disaprearing after 8:00
Ottumwa · IA, USA
1993 Evening Ufo sighting over Ottumwa, Iowa. Singular object splits in two, lights fly across sky.
Des Moines · IA, USA
My diesel engine saved me?
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Dark triangular object with light on "nose" and 3 underneath at the points.
Clarion · IA, USA
Football sized craft passed over my home in 1992
Indianola · IA, USA
Strange Vibrations...
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Daytime sighting of a black stationary tube that looked like UFO from Star Trek Movie with the whales.
Ames · IA, USA
At a stadium concert, I and others saw a disk silently hover directly overhead, and then accelerate away at great speed.